Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Sep 2017 17:34:36 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: hda: Fix forget to free resource in error handling code path in hda_codec_driver_probe |
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On Mon, 04 Sep 2017 17:17:09 +0200, Wang YanQing wrote: > > When hda_codec_driver_probe meet error and return failure, we need > to free resource with patch_ops.free, or we will get resource leak. > > Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com> > --- > Changes v1-v2: > 1: Fix calling patch_ops.free after module_put, reported by Takashi Iwai. > > Hi! Takashi Iwai > Because the only one calling site of patch_ops.free is in > hda_codec_driver_remove, and if hda_codec_driver_probe return > failure, we will no chance to call the hda_codec_driver_remove, > so I think we don't need to care below case: > "Or, for safety, we may put an internal flag to indicate that the codec > free got already called, and check it at before calling > patch_ops.free, too."
Fair enough, applied now.
I found patch_ca0132.c still misses the free at the error path in its probe function, so I'll fix it.
thanks,
Takashi
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